Even after initial diagnosis and treatment, breast cancer can come back. A local recurrence in the breast, a regional one around the armpits, or collarbone, or a metastatic one in the lungs, brain, liver, or bones, always remains a possibility....

Acute liver failure is the rapid loss of over 80-90 percent of liver’s functional efficiency. The liver function loss aids the development of serious complications. ALF requires intensive and immediate care....

Your esophagus connects the throat and stomach. It's lined with two kinds of cells- squamous and gland. Both the cells can suffer from abnormal growth and thus cancer....

Gastric bypass surgery is simply the knotting of your stomach to make it smaller so that you eat less, feel full sooner, and lose some weight in the process. But keep in mind, it is not a quick fix for obesity....

Your small bowel (intestines) is like the Pan American Highway. Everything you put in your stomach travels through this 6-meter long tube(in adults) to the colon whereupon it takes the long intestine route to the rectum, all the while being digested in bits and pieces....

Colectomy, also known as large bowel resection, is a surgical procedure to remove all or a part of your damaged intestine. Since his thick tube is composed of elements like your colon, caecum, anal canal, and rectum, removing the large bowel not a decision taken in light circumstances. ...

A liver-spleen scan on your doctor’s prescription report can cause your forehead to wrinkle in worry. ...

In case of liver failure, transplanting the organ remains the only option. However, cadaver donations are few as opposed to the rising number of people going through liver failure....

Hepatitis C Virus spreads via blood, i.e. when an HCV infected person’s blood enters your body. It could be acute (stays for the first six months) or chronic (long-term with serious repercussions.) 75-80 percent of acute HCV cases develop into chronic Hepatitis C infection....